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Where You Were Burned, About to Burn, or Still on Fire by gimcrackTryhard
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Mar 2023
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She jolts awake, disoriented on her couch, the one that she bought second hand with the ugly scrapes from moving day.
She pulls her hair into a ponytail as she collects herself, almost calm. She walks around the couch, collecting coke cans and ashtrays full of discarded cigarette tail ends and near-evaporated bodies.
If 18 year old her were real, and not only accessible in dream form, she would have scrunched up her nose, or gathered every box of Marlboro Menthols and put them in a trash can. She would’ve yelled at 21 year old Robin to get up off her ass and do something, because hadn’t that been the goal since forever.
21 year old Robin needs a lighter, a cigarette, and a can of cat food for Farrah, who’s nipping at her heels.
______________________________OR: Between 1985 and 1988 Steve and Robin have Three shared birthdays, Two New Years Eve Parties, and One big argument.
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I glow pink in the night for you (I’ve been blossoming alone in my room) by gimcrackTryhard
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Oct 2022
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Usually, when Mike has been holding in something and something breaks him, he spills over completely. He’s referred to it as the emotional dam breaking, making him angry and sad and overwhelmed all at once.
With Will, it’s softer like most things are with him. It’s a slow unwinding that knocks all the fight out of him, knocks all the sadness out of him. He isn’t overwhelmed, just painfully numb, but he tries because Will can’t cry anymore and he doesn’t want the ache in his throat to get worse.“‘M sorry Will, just needed to hold you.”
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Used to go question and then answer (when we were younger and it was easy) by gimcrackTryhard
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Sep 2022
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“Let’s make it a game, like twenty questions or something, I want to rebuild this. Rebuild us,”
Will is quiet from his place on the floor and Mike thinks that maybe he fucked things up again. Made them too weird for Will.
“Yeah, that sounds cool, how about we start now,”
Mike holds in a sigh of relief, “Yeah, you first,”
Will hums, thinking, “What was the first change you noticed about me?”
Mike thinks, and it’s so weird to think about when he first met Will at the airport because time is complicated and Mike is complicated and Will is-
“Your voice, it’s really deep now. Like a man or something,”
Will laughs, “Or something,” He mocks.
“My turn,” Mike chooses to say this instead of not just ‘or something.’ Your voice is a man’s voice now and I still find it pretty and attractive and that should scare me but you’ve never scared me, why don’t you scare me?
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Conversations between Mike and Will about how they change, and how they get together.
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everyone wants a father figure, and the more time dennis spends in the pitt, the further he feels from god. he hasn’t called his family in weeks. it only makes sense that he starts worshipping dr michael robinavitch instead.
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robby, dennis & jack work their shit out on each other
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“You got a verse for that, too?”
Once again, Dennis pauses to think, willing his futile diploma into good use. He tries to stay focused as he meets Robby’s patient gaze, but the sight leaves his heart kicking erratically against his ribs.
“‘Come now, and let us reason together. Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; if they’re red like crimson, they shall become like wool.’”
“Jeez, Whitaker,” Robby huffs, elated. “You got the whole book memorized?”
“Something like that.”
Robby and Whitaker keep running into each other at the hospital's chapel.
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feet on the ground, reaching for the stars by ProfessorSpork
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Oct 2020
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“So,” Mom says one weekend afternoon as she and Robin stare down the Sunday Times crossword, huddled together on the porch swing, “you and Steve Harrington sure have been living in each other’s pockets lately.” She puts down the pen and gives Robin a carefully-probing smile disguised as a teasing one. “Anything you wanna tell me?”
Yeah; I’m gay, Robin thinks. Her throat constricts painfully. “I—you’d know if I were dating someone,” she says instead.
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11 Sep 2025
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Everyone wants something from Lucas, but the Hawkins High Winter Formal forces him to think about what he wants.
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10 Sep 2025
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But El wants her to go. She doesn’t want to hear about what may go wrong. She’s hopeful and she has it all worked out, made an agreement with Hopper to meet her suddenly reappeared sister at some random diner she found on a map halfway between Hawkins and Chicago so she can get her second chance. El’s had people telling her what to do her entire life, literally, and Max refuses to be one of those people. She also refuses to leave her to endure it alone, whatever happens.
“Of course I’m going with you.”
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04 Sep 2025